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I have eight to spare and am covered with hair.
What can provide food before it is alive, while it is alive and after it's dead?
What build its house with earthen string and ensnares its prey with a biting sting?
I am the only animal to have the same Latin and common name.
A warrior among the flowers, he bears a thrusting sword. He uses it whenever he must, to defend his golden hoard.
Said to have fifty shades